Writing out your punctuations[period]

Time for a pet peeve [exclamation point]

Have you ever seen someone post their e[hyphen]mail address with the little punctuations in it written out between brackets [question mark] Here[apostrophe]s mine as an example [colon]

seth [dot] helpap [at] gmail [dot] com

I mean [comma] I suppose it can be helpful for those of us who have been living in a cave for the last decade and didn[apostrophe]t know that in internet termology [comma] the period is pronounced [comma] [begin quote] dot [period][end quote]

But really [comma] do we honestly need to phonetically write out the punctuations of e[hyphen]mail addresses [question mark] Maybe it[apostrophe]s just me [comma] but having to actually read what could be [comma] should be [comma] and so easily is already understood [open parentheses] or we assume most people would understand it [close parentheses] is a bit of an annoyance to have to read [period] Not to mention [comma] suppose someone out there has never typed in an e[hyphen]mail address before and doesn[apostrophe]t realize that [begin quote] dot [end quote] is really supposed to be a period [comma] and [begin quote] at [end quote] is really supposed to be this squiggle thingy [colon][begin quote] @ [end quote][period]

So there[apostrophe]s my two cents on the subject [period] If you[apostrophe]re going to type out your e[hyphen]mail address [comma] just type it as you normally would [comma] especially for the sake of those of us who like to just copy and paste the address when needed instead of typing it out ourselves [period]

Thanks [exclamation point]